Author: Steve Man

Problems sending HTML messages from Outlook Web App

Issue: customer reported problems sending HTML messages from Outlook Web App
 
 
synopsis: Found out content type is set to MimeText(default setting) which forces all messages from OWA to go out as plain text
 
 
resolution:From powershell, type set-remotedomain -Identity Default -ContentType MimeHtmlText

Archiving email in Outlook for MAC 2011

1. Sometimes, customers may have need to archive mails. Follow the steps below toarchive email in Outlook for mac 2011
 
 
2. In some cases, customers may want to setup auto archiving in Outlook for mac and choose to archive date specific items.
please follow the step by step in this article to do this:
 

This email message cannot be delivered because the email address is no longer valid:

Issue: User tries to send email to her email alias, but got this error “This email message cannot be delivered because the email address is no longer valid: User was still able to send the email Resolution: The email alias in the nickname cache file is corrupt. Remove the alias and problem is resolved Follow the steps in the article link below to reset nickname and automatic completion caches in Outlook http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287623

This email message cannot be delivered because the email address is no longer valid:

Issue: User tries to send email to her email alias, but got this error “This email message cannot be delivered because the email address is no longer valid: User was still able to send the email Resolution: The email alias in the nickname cache file is corrupt. Remove the alias and problem is resolved Follow the steps in the article link below to reset nickname and automatic completion caches in Outlook http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287623

Create Transport rule with one Pshell Liner

Task: using pshell, create transport rule to block phishing attack email using some unique words in the subject or body, then redirect the phishing emails to a generic mailbox called canary10
 
 
 
New-TransportRule -Name ‘Phishing attack’ -Comments ’email account upgrade’ -Priority ‘0’ -Enabled $true -SubjectOrBodyContainsWords ‘some DGTX virus ‘,’Technical Mail Admin.’ -RedirectMessageTo ‘user@domain.com’

Use Outlook in Cache and Online Global Address List

You can use Outlook in cache mode and still have the client access the Global Address Book online:
If you make frequent changes to the offline address book, you may want to modify the way that Outlook computers on your network access the Address Book. You can disable the downloading of the offline address book and force the Outlook computers to use the online Global Address List when they use Cached Exchange Mode.
To do this, add the following registry value to the computers, as appropriate for the version of Outlook that you are running.
Outlook 2010
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0OutlookCached Mode
Parameter: DownloadOAB
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0
Outlook 2007
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookCached Mode
Parameter: DownloadOAB
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0
 
We highly recommend Cache mode for outlook users for the reasons stated in the blog site below:
 

reset search index in Exchange 2010 DAG

How to rebuild full-text index catalog manually for DAG Databases
 
1 Suspend all replica databases
2- Net Stop MsExchangeSearch, delete full-text index catalog directory,start microsoft exchange search service by typing net start MsExchangeSearch
3- Delete the Index Catalog on Replica databases
4- Resume the replica databases.
you can do the following to monitor progress
 
 
To check how the process is going do the following:
1- Open Reliability and Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe).
2- In the console tree, under Monitoring Tools, click Performance Monitor.
3- In the Performance Monitor pane, click Add (green plus sign).
4- In Add Counters, in the Select counters from computer list, select the server on which the mailbox database you want to monitor is located.
5- In the unlabeled box below the Select counters from computer list, select Full Crawl Mode Status in the MSExchange Search Indices performance object.
6- In the Instances of selected object box, select the instance for the user’s mailbox database.
7- Click Add, and then click OK.
8- To make easier to monitor the Full Crawl Mode Status, right-click on graph screen then Properties.
9- Select Graph tab.
10- On View Combo box select Histogram bar and Maximum Vertical Scale insert 2, click OK.
When you see a bar for a database it means that the index catalog is been created (value 1), if you don’t see a bar meens the indexing has finished for that database.

Disable APIPA Windows 2008 Server

Disable APIPA Windows 2008 Server

Use Registry Editor to create the following registry key:

  1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters
  2. Add the following value to this key:
    Value name: IPAutoconfigurationEnabled
    Value type: REG_DWORD
    Value in hexadecimal: 0 (A value of 0 disables APIPA support on this computer)

    NOTE: If the IPAutoconfigurationEnabled entry is not present, a default value of 1 is assumed, which indicates that APIPA is enabled.

  3. After you make this change, restart your computer.

Installing Exchange 2010 sp2 mgmt tools on Windows 7

Installing Exchange 2010 sp2 mgmt tools on Windows 7
1.       Download the sp2(varies) files.
2.       Follow instructions from this url  http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-2010-install-management-tools
3.    Apply Update Rollup 2(rollup # varies) from same location as step 1
4.    Reboot your PC.
5.    You are done